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ad-miral



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerlz wrote:
Cristi wrote:
Well Roger... What can you do? Let me see... What happens with your mum is a cultural problem and no one can possibly change that, only herself. You can only wait, maybe time will make her change her mind.

Bye!


I hope so!!!
If you do what Cristi said, 1. you have to wait a long time. As time is money, less time is better. 2. it will be to passive and girly, and you are man, or not? You should behave like a man!

Well, the best solution for you, Rogerlz, is to meet the girl in private. I mean in places which is not your house and where your mom isn't standing.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ad-miral wrote:
Rogerlz wrote:
Cristi wrote:
Well Roger... What can you do? Let me see... What happens with your mum is a cultural problem and no one can possibly change that, only herself. You can only wait, maybe time will make her change her mind.

Bye!


I hope so!!!
If you do what Cristi said, 1. you have to wait a long time. As time is money, less time is better. 2. it will be to passive and girly, and you are man, or not? You should behave like a man!

Well, the best solution for you, Rogerlz, is to meet the girl in private. I mean in places which is not your house and where your mom isn't standing.


I didn't understand what do you mean whith " it will be to passive and girly"

Well thats I have been doing all these years, meetting the gearl in another place, beside my house!!!
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ad-miral



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing Cristi said that you should wait, but "to wait" is a passive action. And only girls wait, if boys wait too, both will wait and nothing will happen.

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Well thats I have been doing all these years, meetting the gearl in another place, beside my house!!!
hahaha I really worried about you but now it seems that I don't have to worry. Good job!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ad-miral, you're an evil guy! You're making me look like a stupid girl... But anyhow...I think that if Roger really wants to date a girl he should tell his parents and even if they don't allow him he should assure his mum and dad that the girl is nice and polite. And maybe if his parents get to meet the girl they'll change their mind and he'll be able to have a girlfriend without hidding her; and please do not say that's a girly thing! Because it's the right way and I bet you, Ad-miral, that you only want to look like a machoman but that's not good.

Oh, one more thing, sooner or later Roger's parents will know he's dating girls without their permission and I reckon they won't be happy at all and as from I am concerned nobody wants to have problems with one's parents, right?

Anyway, have a good day Ad-miral, Roger and everyone who's reading this post! lol

Cristi.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Laughing Cristi said that you should wait, but "to wait" is a passive action. And only girls wait, if boys wait too, both will wait and nothing will happen.



Oh well...I must admit that is true.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always tell to my mon that I have a girlfriend, but I tell that to her joking, and she always tell me: " Is too soon for you to have a girlfriend, and don't have a realtionship with a costarrican"

I never listen to her and everytime that she said that we have a discussion, I always tell to her that not all the costarrican girls are like what you think that their are!!!

But she never believe me, and I can't convince her that there are good costarrican girls Sad But my mon is like that, what I can do. The true is that I doesn't matter if she likes my girlfriend or not, but will be wonderfull if she change her way of thinking, or somebody tell to her that there are good costarrican girls as the same way that there are bad chinese girls.....

Have a nice day!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: My speak. ( Sirinapha Phawo ) Reply with quote

I live in Thailand. I always speak Thai for my mom my dad and my friends. But I learn in university, I learning in English program. In my classroom I must spoke English and textbook is English and my prof. they always teach in English language. In laboratory should have technical term. It technical term is English language. Now, I used Thai and English language in my life. Ever though I use English language everyday but I am not sure for speaking, listening, and writing. I think English language and another is good for life at now. Because it take my life is easy. In a future, sometime I go to travel to other country, English language is not problem for me. Laughing Laughing


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cristi, haha, yeah I admit I'm very evil, I rather rely on my brain than on my heart. And that's what Rogerlz's parents are doing, too- Rely on the brain.

The parents are fearing that Rogerlz will get a big disappointment if the girl leaves him. You know Chinese parents want to help their children very much to let them feel happy. They think it's their duty. This is very different from Western parents, who just let their children live their own life, they think that will make their children happy.

And relationships in young age will probably brake, more probable than if you are in adult age. So as his Chinese parents don't want Rogerlz to be hurt and as they don't want Rogerlz to do an unprofitable investment, they don't want Rogerlz to date.

At the end: The parents don't want Rogerlz to be hurt because they think Western girls are unfaithful, so they forbid Rogerlz to meet the Costarican girl. But they are only doing it to let Rogerlz feel happy.

So what's the most probable solution? Rogerlz should develope this relationship secretly, without letting the parents know it. And when the Costarican girl is very much in love with him, and he is very much in love with her, then he can show her to the parents. The parents will see: Ohh wow a Western girl who is so much in love with our son, and our son so much in love with her...

The will get a big crush of emotion and at the end they will allow Rogerlz to be in love with her.

Laughing That's my scenario, and so I think the best for Rogerlz is to meet the girl in secret. Or do you want him to wait all day, think about her very much, being very stupid, and find out at the end that the girl has found another boy?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:29 am    Post subject: Re: What language do you speak at home? Reply with quote

cavcstudios wrote:
What language do you speak at home?



Hello, I speak Turkish at home but I try spek English because I need to make practices.

You?

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